Tag: books

As summer approaches, we shed warm outer layers, along with the stress of potential snow and sleet and cold, dark days. We seem to breathe into the relaxation the upcoming season promises. And what better way to relax than with a good book?

Lori Herschkowitz-Skala, a Shrewsbury teacher for 30 years, tells her kids they’re never too young to be kind. Her latest children’s book, “The Hair Tie,” illustrated by local business owner Jessica Monaco, supports her point.

Nestled on Broad Street in downtown Red Bank, Jack’s Music Shoppe has been an audiophile’s paradise for decades. But a recent acquisition of several thousand used books promises to turn its customers into readers, not just listeners.

Local authors David Hamilton Golland and Seamus Sionnach announce new book releases

Whether it’s potty humor for children or classic literature, book bans are rising at an unprecedented pace across the country, with record-high demands to remove books from schools and libraries.

For years, Project Write Now (PWN), a nonprofit offering fee-based writing classes and community outreach, was located in an old industrial building near the Red Bank train station on the West Side of the borough.

ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS – Once Abigail Daly learned about the need for books for displaced Afghan adults and children being temporarily housed on a New Jersey military base, the founder of the local nonprofit Bridge of Books took on the mission.

Bridge of Book Foundation is looking for a new storage and work space and ideally a local sponsor to ensure the nonprofit can continue its work of putting books in the hands of underserved children.